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Dean Devlin says it's all about passion, explaining why he's gotten back into the independent financing/foreign sales business through his 13-year-old Electric Entertainment banner.
Electric came on board recently to co-finance with Enderby Entertainment...

The zombie beavers are heading to U.S. theaters and VOD on March 20.
In an early deal at the American Film Market, Freestyle Releasing and Freestyle Digital Media have acquired theatrical and VOD rights to "Zombeavers," which debuted at the Berlin Film...

John Malkovich and Toni Collette are joining Noomi Rapace, Michael Douglas and Orlando Bloom in the thriller "Unlocked."
Sales-financing banner Bloom, which introduced the project at Toronto, is selling rights at AFM.
Michael Apted is directing from a...

Guillermo del Toro has joined the voice cast of Raul Garcia's "Extraordinary Tales," an arthouse animated omnibus feature based on Edgar Allan Poe's novel.
Bac Films has acquired international sales rights and is starting sales at the AFM. Toon feature...

Sharon Stone has signed on to lead an ensemble cast in the psychological thriller "Darknet," set to shoot in New Orleans in the spring.
Cast includes Billy Zane, Gina Gershon and Caterina Murino.
French filmmaker Jacques Malaterre ("Ao: The Last Hunter"...

Kevin Spacey will star as Elvis Presley and Michael Shannon will portray Richard Nixon in the long-in-development movie "Elvis and Nixon."
The project, based on the 1970 meeting of the two figures at the White House, is being introduced at AFM to foreign...

With the seven major studios devoting increasing focus on tentpoles, the indie sector is seeing a welcome emergence of new distributors.
The biggest splash this year has come from 6-month-old Saban Films, which bought three films -- John Travolta's...

Even with Andrew Garfield attached to star and a ripped-from-the-headlines plot, a challenging film like "99 Homes" barely made it to the screen.
It took prolific producer Ashok Amritraj and his Hyde Park Entertainment and Image Nation Abu Dhabi under...

Terence Winter has professed his love for "The Sopranos" finale, but the "Boardwalk Empire" creator certainly didn't choose to emulate his former show's cryptic conclusion in crafting a fifth season that steadfastly built toward its final, revelatory...

If Joel Edgerton has one piece of advice to aspiring actors, it's this: always be sure to check your inbox.
"I found an email the other day from my old agent in London, that I'd just sort of discarded because I was too busy at the time," Edgerton recalls...

Writer-director Jake Paltrow's dystopian potboiler "Young Ones" starts with a lip-licking premise: As a catastrophic global water shortage creates a barren globe, it also spurs a new, wild, untamed West.
In this parched, resource-scarce near-future of a...